Background
Rosine Elisabeth was born the daughter of a barber and surgeon from Brunswick.
Rosine Elisabeth was born the daughter of a barber and surgeon from Brunswick.
On 7 June 1681 or 7 July 1681, the Duke married Rosine, who had just turned eighteen. The Duke"s younger brother Anthony Ulrich and his Chancellor Philipp Ludwig Probst von Wendhausen were present. She did not receive a title during her twenty year marriage to the duke.
She was simply called Madame Rudolphine.
We find this name in a letter from Electress Sophia of Hannover to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz of 18 August 1700. The marriage, however, remained childless.
In 1695, the Duke ordered his royal architect Hermann Korb to expand the Wasserburg castle at Vechelde near Brunswick into the royal Vechelde Palace. They would use the Madamenweg, which was named after her, to travel to Vechelde Palace from the Gray Court in downtown Brunswick.
Elisabeth Rosine Menthe died in 1701 at the Gray Court in Brunswick.